Israel's war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 173rd day — has killed at least 32,490 people and wounded 74,889 as countries at UN rally behind expert who accused Israel of genocide.
1044 GMT –– At least 32,490 Palestinians have been killed and 74,889 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the Gaza's Health Ministry said in a statement. There have been 76 Palestinians killed and 102 injured in the past 24 hours, the ministry statement added.
1004 GMT –– Hezbollah launches rockets into Israel in retaliation –– Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement fired a barrage of rockets into northern Israel killing a civilian, after Israel carried out a deadly strike in south Lebanon. Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army since Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Israeli rescue teams searching a building that had been hit in the border town of Kiryat Shmona "found a 25 year old who was unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing," and pronounced him dead at the scene, the Magen David Adom emergency service said.
0950 GMT –– Russia sends over 29 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza –– Russia said it sent over 29 tonnes of humanitarian aid for besieged Gaza, where more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 74,000 injured since October 7 last year. A statement by Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram that a special flight it dispatched earlier in the day has delivered the 20th batch of humanitarian aid to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent in the city of El Arish, who will then redirect the aid to Gaza residents. The ministry said earlier that the humanitarian aid consists of cereals, flour, sugar and other long-term storage products, as well as personal hygiene products, most of which were collected at the initiative of authorities from the Russian Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia.